Business and human rights in Southeast Asia : risk and the regulatory turn

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ISBN	9780415707459 (hbk.)
Call Number	HD60 B979 2015
Title	Business and human rights in Southeast Asia : risk and the regulatory turn/ edited by Mahdev Mohan, Cynthia Morel
Imprint	New York : Routledge, 2015.
Physical	xx, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Name	Routledge research in human rights law
Contents Note	Introduction/ Mahdev Mohan and Cynthia Morel --Part 1 - Whither Corporate Social Responsibility and the UN Framework and Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in ASEAN?/ Thomas Thomas --Business and Human Rights Challenges in ASEAN: The Role and Modalities of the State/ Delphia Lim and Geetanjali Mukherjee --Why Gender Matters for the Business & Human Rights Agenda in Southeast Asia/ Kathryn Dovey --Childrens Rights and Business: A Framework to Combat ICT-enabled Child Abuse in Southeast Asia/ Philip Cook, Bindu Sharma and Chris Yeomans --Part 2 - Regulating Social and Environmental Risk in ASEAN Financial Integration: The Xayaburi Dam Project in Lao PDR & Thai Banks/ Daniel King --Corporate Sustainability & Palm Oil Industries in Southeast Asia: A Principled Pragmatism/ Puvan Selvanathan and Vani Sathisan --Human Rights Risks Amidst the Gold-rush: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar & Vietnam/ Mahdev Mohan.
Contents Note	Part 3 - Tigers, Dragons, and Elephants on the move in Myanmar: The case for responsible investment and three recommendations for Asian leaders/ Mark Hodge and Salil Tripathi --The New Frontier: Due Diligence & Developing and Implementing Human Rights Audits in Southeast Asia/ James Kallman --Making Human Rights a core business practice: the Finance Sectors role in the promotion & protection of human rights/ Kerri-Ann ONeil --Part 4 - Rule-making for rights protection in the Philippines: The Supreme Courts New Powers for Environmental Regulation & Access to Remedy for Business-related Human Rights Abuse/ Bobbie Sta-Maria --The Reality of Remedy in Mining and Community Relations: An Anonymous Case-study from Southeast Asia/ Deanna Kemp and John R. Owen -- Right To Development: A Path to Securing More Effective Remedies?/ Cynthia Morel.
Summary	Today business and human rights has emerged as a distinct field within the broader corporate responsibility movement. The endorsement by the United Nations Human Rights Council of a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights in 2011 has been welcomed as the leading global standard for corporations to respect human rights. The Guiding Principles are the culmination of a six year UN commissioned.
Subject	Human rights--Southeast Asia
Subject	Social responsibility of business--Southeast Asia
Subject	International business enterprises--Law and legislation--Southeast Asia
Coorperative Author	Mohan, Mahdev
Coorperative Author	Morel, Cynthia
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